Piracy forced the creation of the streaming economy because their only choice was to make it easier to stream than pirate. Now every streaming service is racing to the bottom based on the belief they have captured the audience forever. The only ethical solution, therefore, is to start pirating again.
not only has streaming gotten worse, piracy has gotten better.
i did some research recently and found that there’s a whole suite of “collection manager” tools that make the whole process obscenely easy (assuming some level of technical skill to get through the initial setup), from automatically downloading content at a preferred quality to getting it correctly tagged and sorted for Plex or Jellyfin or whatever media player thing to display it
you can even get an app to manage it all from your phone
not that i’m doing any of this obviously. just thought it was interesting and wanted to share. for educational purposes only 😉
